_underway_during_sea_trials_on_10_June_1980.jpg) USSSamuel Eliot Morison during sea trials in 1980 | |
| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USSSamuel Eliot Morison |
| Namesake | Rear AdmiralSamuel Eliot Morison |
| Ordered | 27 February 1976 |
| Builder | Bath Iron Works,Bath, Maine |
| Laid down | 4 December 1978 |
| Launched | 14 July 1979 |
| Commissioned | 11 October 1980 |
| Decommissioned | 10 April 2002 |
| Stricken | 23 July 2002 |
| Homeport |
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| Identification |
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| Motto | "The Past is Prologue" |
| Fate | Sold toTurkey on 11 April 2002 |
| Badge |  |
 Turkish TCGGökova | |
 Turkey | |
| Name | Gökova |
| Namesake | Municipality ofGökova |
| Acquired | 11 April 2002 |
| Identification | F 496 |
| Status | in active service |
| General characteristics[1] | |
| Class & type | Oliver Hazard Perry-classfrigate |
| Displacement | 4,100 long tons (4,200 t), full load |
| Length | 445 feet (136 m),overall |
| Beam | 45 feet (14 m) |
| Draft | 22 feet (6.7 m) |
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| Speed | over 29 knots (54 km/h) |
| Range | 5,000 nautical miles at 18 knots (9,300 km at 33 km/h) |
| Complement | 15 officers and 190 enlisted, plusSH-60 LAMPS detachment of roughly six officer pilots and 15 enlisted maintainers |
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| Electronic warfare & decoys | AN/SLQ-32 |
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| Aircraft carried | 1 ×SH-2F LAMPS I[4] But may have never been modified to carry LAMPS (ie "poop deck")Lack of funding for NRF ships. |
| Aviation facilities | Hangar Bay, Helicopter Deck |
USSSamuel Eliot Morison (FFG-13), was the seventhOliver Hazard Perry-classfrigate in service with theUnited States Navy. She was named for Rear AdmiralSamuel Eliot Morison (1887–1976), one of America's most distinguished naval historians, who wrote more than 40 books on naval history includingthe official history of the US Navy inWorld War II.
Samuel Eliot Morison was the first ship of that name in the U.S. Navy.
On 11 April 2002,Samuel Eliot Morison was decommissioned and transferred toTurkey, where she was renamed as TCGGökova (F 496) and joined the otherOliver Hazard Perry-class vessels acquired by theTurkish Navy asG-class frigates.
In 2013, she contributed toOperation Ocean Shield with other NATO Forces Ships in the Gulf of Aden.
As of 2019, she is still in active service.
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